The New Mind of the South
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York; USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781439158036
Copyright date: 2013
Description: Thompson, a Georgia native, asserts that the South has drawn on its oldest tradition: an ability to adapt and transform itself. She spent years traveling through the region and discovered a South both amazingly similar and radically different from the land she knew as a child. The new South is ahead of others in absorbing waves of Latino immigrants, in rediscovering its agrarian traditions, in seeking racial reconciliation, and in reinventing what it means to have roots in an increasingly rootless global culture.
Table of contents: title: It's Complicated; title: Salsa with Your Grits; title: The Big Lie; title: Shadow History; title: Jesusland; title: The Sorting Out; title: Atlanta; title: Old Times There Are Not Forgotten